Tough Cookie & the Latelys...

Ya Gotta Be Tough Cookie & Smile a lot too.
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I have learned a lot in the last little while (that is what I have been doing while I could have been blogging of course! :D) There have been some really hard moments for me living back east...times that I have been "stretched" and given a chance to grow.  

I have had two theme songs these past couple weeks. One is Lessons Learned by Carrie Underwood and the other is Brave by Sara Barellies. AND WOOWWZA, I love them. 

And now for the LATELYS...

 

These are a few of my favorite things as of late...

 

1. Planning for visiting Sar in the big Apple. NYC TRIP

 

2. The Pentagon Memorial. We went on the most beautiful night. Every person who passed has a bench. Under the bench is a pool of water. The benches that face the building were in the plane, those facing outward were in the building at the time of the crash. It was beautiful and one of my favorite memorials in DC.

 

3. Just a gorgeous night with a sin rise that reminded me of home sweet home.



4. Another run getting caught and drenched in the rain!  At the point before it started raining I thought my insides were going to cook from the heat... and then I felt rain! MIRACLE.  These two are my angels of exercise. They keep me going!!



5. The Rainbow that we saw as we ran up to the Barlow! Beautiful! The Barlow is right behind that tree!


6. The National Gallery of Art was a fun place to visit. The picture on the right just below is the Preamble to the Constitution in license plates- there is a plate from every state! That was my favorite piece of art.

6. A letter from the cutest brother in the world.  He is on fire and I get too excited to hear from him. He is serving a mission in Calgary Canada. I didn't think I would miss him as much as I do! He is so good and going to do so much good.



7. Some reflection time with Einstein... :] Good for the soul!



8. Friends come to visit!!


9. I am more like my mother everyday... so excited about office supplie hunting?!


10. My auntie sent me this little ditty and it made my week. I want to hang this guy up in my future home for my kids!



11.BEST NEWS EVER. I FOUND A POOL!!!!! :]

 

12. And a gorgeous view on the roof of my building for lunch.

13. Nightly adventures walking the monuments...the Lincoln always wins!

 

14. A trip to the zoo was definitely in order! We sweat so much this day and saw greeeattt animals. Definitely worthy of the national zoo status.

 

15. One of many birthday celebrations...NATALIE's BIRTHDAY had to be topped off with a photoshoot but our favorite little red wall in Georgetown of course!

 

 

16. Best ice cream in the world can be found at Thomas Sweet in Georgetown. I have been here to many times. No sugar until my birthday....But doesn't that look like the perfect cone?!

17. We took pictures to enter a contest for WHERE magazine. We never entered the pictures...but we had fun!

 

18. AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM.  NO WORDS. JUST AWESOME.

 

19. Gorgeous Blooms and a not so gorgeous sight/battle of single housing? :]

 

20. New Indian Sandals from Eastern Market & More pool time...ahhhh.

 

21. Another Birthday Celebration for the beautiful Megan Noak. We is cray-cray.

 

LAST, BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT:

I FINISHED MY SECOND TO LAST PAPER , for the semester, 20 MINUTES AGO.

 

YAYYYYYYY! :]

One more to go my friends..